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Apr122010

Chanel’s Summer 2010 Pop Collection includes two Gloss Fluo de Chanel in Pop and Laser ($27 each). As with Chanel’s Fluo glosses released in the past, these two are very lightly pigmented, high-shine glosses with the familiar Glossimer gel feel.

In the tube, the colors look like electric jelly. Despite the brightness, these are easy summer glosses, or at a minimum, as fun as a Chanel product gets (why do I imagine Coco Chanel wearing pearls to the beach?) You can keep one in your beach bag or summer purse. Pull them out, they’re fun little flashes of color that look great when you touch up your lips poolside. They deposit a “just bit into a popsicle” touch of color and glow–barely any color, just full glossy lips with the faintest touch of tone.

The gel texture gives the lips a moisturized and deeply shiny look. These will not give you an over-done or heavy lip. The doe-foot applicator, which is visible through the sheer gloss in the tube, delivers a wash of glossy shine. There is no glimmer, shimmer or sparkle.

Laser (#407) is a deep pink and Pop (#427) is the bright coral-pink.

Fair warning–if you’d like versions of these shade with opaque pigment, then buy the Rouge Allure lipsticks in Super and Genial. These Fluo are not designed to apply with the same brightness as the tubes.

I think of Chanel’s Fluo’s as fun little accessories. The tubes are pretty, unique and eye-catching. They are in the distinctive Glossimer tube that says “Yes, it’s Chanel.” The result is a sheer, glossy and summer-casual effect. If you like, try these over a lipstick for a completely different, high-shine plus pigment effect.